Hortense Belhôte

Performed by Aurélien Patouillard, Auréliens is the stage transposition of a lecture that Aurélien Barrau gave in 2019 at the University of Lausanne on what he calls ‘The greatest challenge in the history of humanity’. While, like his peers, Aurélien Barrau draws up an implacable balance sheet, he also puts forward a dozen or so avenues for us to consider in an attempt - if not to avoid a wall from which every minute of inaction that passes brings us closer - to limit the damage. Auréliens' ambition, by shifting both the discourse (from a “traditional” audience to a theatre) and its transmitter (from the author to the “character”), is to revisit the sensitive dimension of discourse, based on the conviction that the so-called “living” arts can convey just how fragile and precious the act of being remains.

Alone onstage, Thomas Quillardet unravels the stories of patients he encountered during an artistic residency in a hospital. He assembles a polyphony of voices in order to share in his empathy and create a radiography of what links us together.